It's like watching Gladiators all over again...

Before we get anywhere with this story, allow us to place a little disclaimer: running on to a football pitch is wrong.

It's illegal, it'll get you banned and you shouldn't do it, kids. Plain and simple.

Right, now that's out of the way, can we just say how mightily impressive this Russian football fan's dash to the pitch is?

In a scene reminiscent of Gladiators' gauntlet challenge, this Spartak Moscow fan managed to evade the attempts of at least 10 stewards on the running track to get onto the pitch at his team's away game at Zenit .

He starts here:

And ends up here:

HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!

We've watched it a few times and we're still not really sure how he managed it - he's either the strongest/fastest man in town or they have some VERY lazy stewards - but it's exceptionally impressive regardless.

Make sure you watch it all unfold in the video at the top of the page!